Healthy Kids Challenge Blog

“Making the healthy choice to be physically active or choose foods like fresh fruits & vegetables has gotten harder…To become a healthy society, we need healthy options. Environmental changes can make healthy choices more available. Changing what we eat & drink, making it easier to do the healthy th

Emma Williams of Harding Academy, Searcy, AR., won a “Chef for a Day” with her whole grain recipe, Fruity Chicken and Rice Salad. Emma cooks a lot with her family. From that experience, she has learned to incorporate MyPlate guidelines in her every day eating. She showed us that by adding whole grai

School will be out soon and summer days beg to be filled with active play! Give any of these 4 ideas a try and come back to let us know which is your favorite. Put Your Heads Together – Gather your family to discuss fun, active play ideas you want to do together this summer. [...]

This specialty PB&T(Peanut Butter and Tuna) recipe won Justin Brownell a “Chef for a Day” at his junior high school in Wappingers Falls, NY, by entering the “Stirring Up Health™” recipe contest.  Justin enjoys getting into the kitchen to try healthy foods and new tastes. “After eating at a Thai rest

With pole beans climbing high in the sky? Or with tomato plants all in a row? If you join us in our mission for helping kids to eat, move, and enjoy healthy balance, you have surely made the connection between gardening and healthy kids. It’s the real-world Hear-See-Do model for helping kids make th

And the winner of the Get Your Plate in Shape Challenge is Liz Samball. Liz won a Healthy Kids Challenge T-shirt and a set of Explore MyPlate wristbands for her pictures and story about how she helps kids get their plates in shape. Congrats, Liz! Check out her pictures and success story! And speakin

Our fan, Liz Samball, PE/Health teacher at Leckie Elementary School in Washington, DC, wins recognition this week of the Challenge for shaping up her students’ plates! She sent photos and a fun group activity. She is incorporating healthy eating  messages along with her physical education classes. M

Our fan, Karalee, wins recognition this second week of the Challenge for shaping up her snack with fruit – strawberries, strawberries, strawberries! Remember that small changes are the most sustainable. Simply adding a serving of fruit to a snack is an easy way to shape up your plate. Congrats, Kara